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Thanks to you all I found what I'd need to make my win XP laptop
interface w/ AN1X (i.e., had original editor on win 98 machine that
died over a year ago, but found out about stand alone version of AN
Expert Editor etc from you guys).

I wanted to use the AN1X's step sequencer to help me program bass
lines, and so far, w/ the rest/velocity thing and some tweaks to my
hardware sequencer's "swing", things are working out well.

With everything going swimmingly and less intimidated by midi and
the AN1x interface than I was a couple years back—not to mention the
way the sound sits in my mixes far better—I decided to swap the AN1x
for my JP-8K in my live rig.

So, with thanks to you all again, I was off to find voice sets.
First I found that I had to change the name of the files from ∗.an1
to ∗AN1 for the AN Expert to find them. Is this the correct
approach?

Now the real problem. About 70-80% of my newly dl'ed patches cause
midi note hangs. An important troubleshooting note here is that
∗∗none of the patches in the AN Expert Editor "user" portion of the
library (i.e., 001: Metallic) cause this to happen. ∗∗ (As an
important aside, perhaps, I DO get a "check sum" error when loading
ANY voice, i.e., either the user voices that came in AN Expert
Editor or the dl'ed voices. Plus, voices in 1 or 2 from AN Expert
won't load either, but I assumed this was normal b/c they were AN200
specific.)

Anyhow, thanks again for this serious knowledge-base and THANKS IN
ADVANCE for any/all insights. I know I have other questions, but
we'll leave it at this for now.

Thanks again and keep on tweaking on.